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Viewer discretion advised. A young pilot from Memphis who
attempted a solo flight to all 7continents is being detained in
Antarctica. Flying into a legal storm, 19
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year old Ethan Guo has landed himself in deep trouble after he
touched down in Chilean Antarctica.
Hauled before the courts after making an unauthorized flight.
On June 28th, 2025, a small Cessna 182 takes off from Punta
Arenas, Chile. At the controls is Ethan Guro, a
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19. Year old American pilot.
Ethan's mission to land on everycontinent to raise funds for
childhood Cancer Research. By all accounts, his mission is
courageous, noble, and meticulously planned.
But shortly into his flight, Ethan deviates sharply from his
official flight path, altering his course southward toward one
of the most restricted and heavily monitored locations on
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Earth, Antarctica. Without authorization, Ethan
lands at Chile's Lieutenant Rodolfo Marsh base on King
George Island. He is swiftly detained by
military personnel, his aircraftgrounded, and within hours
Chilean authorities announce an official investigation.
The stated charge? Violation of international
airspace and falsifying his flight plan.
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Ethan insists it was an emergency, an unavoidable
response to mid flight complications, but authorities
are unconvinced. Antarctica has long been more
than just a frozen wasteland. It's a continent wrapped in
secrecy, subject to tightly controlled treaties and military
oversight by nations around the globe.
For decades, rumors have persisted of something
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extraordinary hidden beneath itsmiles of ice.
Ancient structures, lost civilizations, secret military
bases, and perhaps even evidenceof advanced beings who visited
Earth long before recorded history.
Did Ethan fly too close to something he was never supposed
to see? For decades?
Anyone who approaches Antarcticawithout explicit permission
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risks swift consequences, just begging us to ask what might lie
beneath the continent's icy surface.
Ancient pyramids sealed away from millennia.
Portals capable of bridging distant worlds.
Technology far beyond our modernunderstanding.
Perhaps even traces of a lost civilization or extraterrestrial
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encounters. Ethan's story asks the
unavoidable question if there's nothing to hide, why silence a
teenage pilot on a charitable mission?
What secrets lie waiting beneathAntarctica's ice?
And how far are the powers in control willing to go to keep
them from ever being revealed? Antarctica.
A continent of ice. But what secrets lie frozen
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beneath, and what are they trying to hide from us?
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Good evening. This is Frank Knight.
May I introduce our Co editors for this edition of The Longing
Chronoscope, Larry Laser, CBS News correspondent and Kenneth
Crawford, National Affairs Editor of Newsweek magazine.
Our very distinguished guest forthis evening is Admiral Richard
E Byrd. Our guest tonight found out
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whether there was any land northof the North American continent.
He made that first discovery flight.
And I must say that Admiral Byrd, our guest tonight, is not
only our greatest living explorer, but he's been an
inspiration to countless Americans.
Admiral Byrd, you've been to both the North Pole and the
South Pole. Is there any unexplored land
left on this earth that might appeal to adventurous young
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Americans? Yes there is, and not up around
the north. Pole because.
It's getting crowded up there now because they find out it's
really usable not only to live in but militarily.
But strangely enough, as left inthe world today, an area as big
as the United States that's never been seen by a human
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being. And that's beyond the pole on
the other side of the South Polefrom middle America.
And it's, I think it's quite astonishing that there should be
an area as big as that. Unexplored.
That's a tremendous so. There's a lot of adventure left
down at the bottom of the world.Admiral, do you?
Hope to see that. I do.
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In late 1946, the United States Navy launched a mission to
Antarctica unlike anything before or since.
Operation High Jump, a full scale naval task force. 13
ships, 33 aircraft, over 4700 men.
A full carrier group with destroyer escorts, all deployed
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to the most remote and hostile continent on Earth.
In command was a man the American public already knew
well, Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Bird.
The same man who had flown over the North Pole.
The same man who had built the first permanent US base on the
Antarctic continent. So when the Navy wanted
something done in the Deep South, they sent Bird.
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Officially, the mission was about testing equipment in
extreme cold field exercises, logistics training.
It was supposed to last six months.
It ended in just eight weeks. No public explanation, just a
quiet withdrawal and vague statements about weather.
Those who were there tell a different story.
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They said one of the planes was lost under strange
circumstances, that radio contact was broken mid flight,
that certain logs were never entered.
And they say Byrd himself took off on a final reconnaissance
flight alone. February 19th.
That's the date on a document that.
Appeared decades later. A document with no official Navy
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stamp. No confirmation.
But a story that refuses to die A private flight log Bird's
alleged diary passed. Hand to hand in.
Photocopies circulated. Among researchers, dismissed by
many but never fully debunked. What it describes?
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Is something no US official everadmitted publicly?
And what? It suggests is that.
Byrd saw something no one was meant to.
See February. 19th, 1947 Admiral.
Richard E Byrd lifts. Off in an R4D from Little
America. For a solo photo Recon flight,
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weather is clear. Temperature -30° Fahrenheit, 20
minutes in the magnetic compass and.
Gyro both drift radio. Contact drops.
The aircraft begins a slow uncommanded turn S through a
break in low. Cloud Bird records.
An unexpected sight. A broad.
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Valley free of snow, green slopes and open water.
Cockpit thermometer rises rapidly to 70°F.
Two metallic disc shaped. Craft appear off each.
Wing tip they match speed and guide the R. 4D toward a flat.
Illuminated strip inside the valley.
Engine controls respond but require no input during descent.
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After landing, bird is met by tall figures, human in outline,
pale and calm. Communication is direct and.
Clear without visible speech, they identify.
Their settlement as an interpolar refuge.
Their message is straightforward.
Surface nation's development of nuclear weapons poses a threat
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to planetary stability. The warning must be delivered
approximately 3 hours after touchdown.
Bird is returned to the aircraft, Instruments read
Normal fuel tanks show full. The escort craft depart
vertically at high speed. Bird exits the valley through.
Dense cloud and regains radio contact.
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He completes the flight. With no additional anomalies
back at base camp, he drafts a. Private log of the.
Events and files an official report that omits the incident.
The log is. Sealed Its current location is
unknown and in 1957, Admiral Byrd.
Dies. His personal papers are.
Sealed. His logs are archived.
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And the supposed diary is never seen in physical form again.
The missing flight log of Admiral Byrd, sometimes titled
Admiral. Byrd's secret diary or flight
log, February. 19th, 1947. First appeared in 1990,
Published in Timothy Green. Beckley's Global Communications.
Which specialized in UFOs, New age and suppressed information.
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The text is presented as if it were a direct transcription of
Byrd's private journal. Complete with dates.
First person entries and a finalemotional confession.
This last entry I must write quietly and with great
discretion. I now.
Close this diary. I must state.
Here that I have faithfully kept.
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This matter secret as. Directed all these years.
It has been completely against my values of moral.
Right now I seem to sense the long night coming on and this
secret will not die with me. But as all truth shall.
It will triumph. There is no official.
Record of that flight. No crew logs, no mission
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debrief, only the. Diary circulated years later.
In fringe publications and later.
Uploaded to early. Internet forums.
Mainstream historians. Call it a hoax.
Operation High Jump did end months ahead of schedule with
little explanation. Byrd did.
Go on television years. Later.
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Warning that the United States might one day face fast moving
threats from the polls and. There are still places.
In Antarctica, that remain off limits even to modern.
Researchers So where did the? Diary come from.
Was it real? A fabrication, A distorted
retelling of something that actually happened.
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There are no easy answers. Let me ask you, is there a great
difference between the top of the world and the bottom of the
world? There is now the North Pole is
the scent of an ocean 10,000 feet deep, the South Pole the
scent of a plateau 10,000 feet high.
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The North Pole of sea is surrounded by continents that
are slightly frozen. The Antarctic continent is
surrounded by a belt of ice frozen seas of at least 1200
miles thick. Now the South is a plateau.
It gets in some places 14,000 feet up.
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I've been over areas about 13,000 and it's a little bit
chilly up there. Antarctica was supposed to be
the one patch of Earth. Nobody.
Could carve up. In 1959, a dozen nations sat
down in Washington and signed the Antarctic Treaty, Article 1.
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Iced all military claims article.
Two promised open science and article. 4 shoved territorial.
Ambitions under the rug for the duration of the pact sounds
noble until you read the fine print.
The treaty doesn't ban soldiers only.
Hostile activities. So every.
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Summer See 17 cargo planes stuffed with uniformed troops
Thunder into McMurdo. For research logistics.
The runways are built, maintained and guarded by the
same people who run. Forward bases everywhere.
Else on the planet peaceful. Branding military hardware
tourists they're funneled through a.
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Single choke point system run bythe International Association of
Antarctica. Tour operators if.
You want to set foot on the ice,you must book one of their ships
land at their. Approved sites.
And follow a script down to how many minutes you're allowed to
stand near a Penguin. Step off the corridor.
And your permit issued by your own government.
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Evaporates Above the ice lies the.
Real curtain flight restrictions.
No travel brochure mentions the US Air Operations Manual.
Draws A literal wedge over the South.
Pole NFZ Sector 2 Any aircraft, manned or unmanned, must stay
outside that slice of sky unlesson official NSF business the
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coordinates drift. With the ice sheet.
But the rule never moves. Do not overfly the atmospheric
lab. Why quarantine a patch of air in
the most remote place on. Earth officials say it's to keep
jet exhaust away. From sensitive climate
instruments. 280 million years ago, before it
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was a frozen desert, Antarctica was part of the supercontinent
Gondwana, connected to Africa, South America, India and
Australia. Back then, Antarctica wasn't
white, it was green. Ferns, forests, rivers.
Fossils show that once conifer trees grew here, even flowering
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plants, some parts stayed temperate year round.
Scientists have found the remains of ancient amphibians
and even dinosaurs buried beneath the rock.
But then came the cold. Roughly 34,000,000 years ago,
Antarctica broke off and driftedS ocean currents shifted, The
climate crashed, glaciers formed, ice took over.
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Now 98% of the continent is buried under a shell of ice more
than a mile thick. That ice has secrets.
There are places here where it hasn't snowed in 2,000,000
years. The McMurdo Dry Valleys are so
barren and windswept, scientistscall them the closest thing to
Mars. On Earth.
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The Blood Falls. It pours out from the mouth of a
glacier, bright red, staining the white ice.
For years, no one could explain it.
People thought it was algae. Some called it rust, a leak from
an underground system we don't understand.
It turns out it's iron rich brine from a subglacial lake
sealed beneath the ice for millennia, carrying microbial
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life that survives without sunlight, oxygen or heat.
Beneath the surface of Antarctica are hundreds of lakes
connected by underground rivers and pressurized chambers.
Radar scans show mountains taller than the Alps buried
under the ice. In West Antarctica, NASA found a
growing void beneath the Thwaite's glacier, a hidden
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cavity the size of Manhattan. The ice above it is melting from
below, and no one can explain why it's happening so fast.
New data now shows that parts ofthe continent are thawing and
turning green. Satellite images show the
Antarctic Peninsula, the northernmost finger of the
frozen landmass, now supporting roughly 12 square kilometers of
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mosses, lichens and algae. That's 10 times more than it was
in 1986, and the increase has accelerated by over 30% between
2016 and 2021. From above, they look almost
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perfect. Sharp angles, 4 triangular
faces, snow covered peaks risingfrom an otherwise barren sheet
of ice. A formation in Ellsworth Land,
not far from the Heritage Range,where three peaks rise from the
ice in a pattern that, to the eye, looks almost geometric.
Skeptics say they're just mountain peaks that stick
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through the ice, sculpted by millennia of glacial wind and
erosion. Maybe.
But if that's true, why do they appear almost identical in shape
and proportion to the pyramids of Giza?
And why are there three lined upalong a similar axis?
Researchers have noted right angles and symmetry and adjacent
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ridges, features rarely seen in natural mountain formations.
They are located near Lake UnionGlacier in one of the few zones
of Antarctica that satellites have trouble penetrating with
consistent clarity. Based on available satellite
measurements and elevation models, the estimated size of
the main Antarctic pyramid is staggering.
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It stands approximately 2000 meters tall, about 6600 feet,
making it taller than Mount Kosciusko in Australia.
It's base width is estimated between 1:00 to 2 kilometers per
side, giving it a footprint that's 10 to 20 times larger
than the Great Pyramid of Giza. What are the odds that erosion
carves a structure with the sameprecision as the pyramids of
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Egypt? That three of them appear in a
formation? That they're located in one of
the least studied zones on Earth?
Antarctica wasn't always ice. We know that it was green,
temperate, teeming with life. If there was an ancient
civilization here, pre flood, prehistory, pre ice, isn't this
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exactly the kind of structure they leave behind?
Massive, immovable, geometrically coated, built to
outlast everything? Maybe they left something
inside? The pyramid formations sit at 79
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degrees 58 minutes 39.2 seconds S and 81 degrees 57 minutes 32.2
seconds West in Ellsworth Land, W Antarctica between 2012 and
2000. 16 Google Earth users reported high res satellite.
Views were being blurred, downgraded or even removed,
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especially after media attentionincreased.
Rumors persist of deep underground structures beneath
the pyramids. Either left by.
Ancient builders or currently occupied by hidden research
bases? In the early 1500s, in the heart
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of the Ottoman Empire, we meet Admiral Piri, Race, full name
Ahmed Muhidan Piri, a seasoned mariner, master cartographer and
respected Admiral in the OttomanNavy.
In 1513, he created something remarkable, a world map drawn on
Gazelle's skin parchment showingparts of Europe, Africa, South
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America, and, most controversially, A mysterious
landmass far to the South. According to his own handwritten
notes on the map's margin, he compiled it from over 20 ancient
charts, including maps said to date from the time of Alexander
the Great, lost works of Arab geographers, and even a chart
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made by Columbus himself. The map would vanish from
history for centuries, locked away in the Topkapi Palace in
Istanbul. It wasn't until 1929, during a
cataloguing project in the palace library, that historians
stumbled across the artifact again, brittle, faded and only
partially intact. But even the surviving third was
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enough to raise eyebrows around the world.
Because that southern landmass, the one most claim is just
artistic filler, appears to lineup shockingly well with modern
topographical scans of Queen Maude Land, Antarctica without
the ice. In other words, the Piri Race
map might be showing a version of Antarctica as it existed
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before it was frozen, a landscape not visible for at
least 6000 to 12,000 years. This wasn't discovered until the
1950s, when a joint British Swedish survey team used seismic
equipment to map the bedrock beneath Antarctica's thick
glacial layers. To their shock, the coastline
under the ice matched the outline from Piri Race's map.
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If this map is accurate, then someone at some point in deep
history saw Antarctica without ice.
How was it mapped in the distantpast by a lost civilization now
buried under snow? Were aerial observations made in
prehistory from advanced craft or satellite like technology?
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Or were these secrets preserved and passed through forgotten
libraries, hidden orders, or ancient survivors?
Some believe the data came from Atlantean archives, knowledge
salvage after a cataclysm, stored in scrolls later
inherited by Arab scholars and eventually by Ottoman
navigators. Others suggest it was never
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human knowledge to begin with, but left behind by non human
intelligences like the Annunaki or the Watchers who once
surveyed this planet from above.Piri Race never claimed to
understand the full power of what he'd compiled.
He simply recorded what the older maps had shown.
Even stranger the coastline, theone matching modern seismic
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scans. It includes mountain ranges,
inlets, even rivers, features you wouldn't know from sailing
the icebound coast. Mainstream historians say the
Antarctica on the map is probably just a distorted South
American coast, that the resemblance is coincidence, that
the ancient charts Piri Rice used were just imaginative
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renderings by early explorers. Maybe.
But this isn't the only map thathints at ancient knowledge of
the South. Others, like the Orontius
Phineas map from 1531, the Boache map from 1737, and even
earlier Ptolemaic models also show a large southern continent,
often with features uncannily close to modern Antarctica.
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It's as if someone once knew what lay beneath the ice, long
before we had the tools to find out if this information survived
the fall of empires, if it passed through secret hands for
centuries, what else might be hidden in the maps we've lost?
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What if the end of the world begins where no one lives?
In 1938, with tensions in Europebuilding toward war, Nazi
Germany launched an expedition to Antarctica.
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Its official goal? Surveying whaling territory and
securing. Natural resources, The ship.
Was called the Schwabenland and it was.
Equipped with state-of-the-art aircraft.
Capable of launching from catapults, a flying fleet that
spent weeks mapping the frozen continent from above, the
Germans dropped thousands of metal darts, each emblazoned
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with swastikas, into the ice. Staking claim to a region they
named Neuschwabenland. They mapped mountain.
Ranges photographed valleys. And then vanished.
In the years that followed, rumors exploded.
Rumors of a hidden Nazi base buried deep beneath the ice,
shielded from the world and protected by more than just
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secrecy. After World War 2.
Strange reports began leaking from the southern ice military
pilots flying near the South Pole claimed to see.
Silver discs. Rising from the snow, research
stations reported unexplained radar interference, missing
personnel and lights dancing across the glaciers with no
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known source. The sightings didn't stop in the
1950s and. 60s as the Cold War ramped up.
Both Soviet and American teams reported objects in the sky
behaving in ways no aircraft could replicate.
In some cases, strange bioluminescent creatures were
spotted moving under the. Ice too large, too fast.
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Too intelligent to explain the sightings didn't stop.
Some researchers described massive tunnel like caverns.
Revealed by satellite radar. Deep beneath the surface, places
warm enough to harbor life but entirely unreachable by
conventional means. In 2012, a Russian team drilling
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into Lake. Vostok, A subglacial lake sealed
off for. 15,000,000 years claimed to have found microbial
life unlike anything on earth and then abruptly stopped.
Reporting. What is Antarctica hiding?
A lost. Base A Buried civilization One
of the most circulated stories comes from a man named.
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Corey Goode, who? Claims he was part of an off
world program. He states that massive
crystalline portal. Structures.
Lie beneath the ice, and that Antarctica served as an ancient
transit hub for beings from other star systems, including
Orion. In declassified CIA materials
and rumored offshoots of ProjectLooking Glass, there's reference
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to natural dimensional distortions, usually in deep.
Isolated, high energy geological.
Zones. Multiple documents refer to the
South Pole as one of these high interference locations, possibly
linked to subsurface anomalies and geomagnetic disruptions.
Some researchers claim that datafrom.
NASA's GRACE satellite. And ES as Go Sea mission
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revealed unusual gravitational anomalies under Antarctica,
especially near Wilkes Land. Some theorize this might not
just be a buried impact sight, but an energy.
Vortex or collapsed wormhole possibly artificially created.
Now dormant or damaged, the Bookof Enoch describes the ends of
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the. Earth where?
Enoch saw the gates of heaven open, and a great abyss burning
with fire. Many.
Researchers suggest this could. Point to polar regions remote
viewers trained under. Project Stargate, allegedly.
Claimed to see structures under Antarctica that flicker in and
out of visibility, as if phasingbetween dimensions.
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Some say the real reason the continent is locked down by
treaty isn't to protect Penguins.
It's to guard a doorway. A doorway.
To another dimension. The ancient Greeks spoke of
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Terra Australis incognita, the unknown southern land.
They believed a massive southerncontinent must exist to balance
the lands of the north. Philosophers like Ptolemy and
Aristotle treated it as fact, but how did they know the region
had never been mapped? Some suggest it was a holdover
from an earlier world memory. Then there's the Hindu concept
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of Patala, an ancient subterranean realm said to exist
beneath the southern regions of Earth.
Patala was home to the Nagas, serpent beings of immense
knowledge and power. In Hindu cosmology, access to
Patala was guarded and rare. Could this be a symbolic
reference to a hidden civilization beneath the
Antarctic ice? And in Buddhist and Jain
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traditions, we find tales of Shambhala, a secret land hidden
in the earth, accessible only tothe pure of heart and spirit.
While often associated with Tibet, Shambhala was also said
to be polar, sometimes describedas a land of light at the ends
of the earth. Theosophists in the 19th century
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even speculated that Shambhala was a hidden sanctuary beneath
Antarctica itself, the Norse myth of Genungagap, the
primordial void of ice and fire that existed before the world
began. According to the Eddas, life
itself emerged from this glacialrift, a place older than the
gods, older than time. Could Antarctica, with its
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strange geothermal anomalies andunexplainable warmth beneath the
ice, be a real world echo of that mythic void?
The farther back we go, the blurrier the lines become
between myth and memory. What if these stories from Tibet
to the Andes, from Iceland to India, are fractured
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recollections of a civilization that thrived before the earth
shifted, before the poles froze,before the veil of ice fell?
Some believe Antarctica could have been home to an ancient
civilization, possibly Atlantean, Lemurian, or even pre
Adamic. Others go further, pointing to
texts and traditions that speak of sky gods, fallen beings or
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advanced architects who vanishedbeneath the sea or retreated
underground. Scattered across the continent
are facilities never listed on official records.
Some show up on satellite maps, only to vanish a few weeks
later. Others are hidden beneath the
ice, connected by buried tunnels, sealed chambers and
forgotten runways. Why are certain coordinates off
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limits even to governments? Why are satellites restricted
from photographing key areas? Why are so many nations
desperate to maintain the Antarctic Treaty even now?
And what exactly is being hiddenbeneath the oldest ice on Earth?
Were the Nazis simply chasing myths, or did they find
something real? Is there truly an entrance to a
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hollow earth, a lost world buried in time?
Were the Anunnaki here before the ice?
Before the flood? Did they leave something behind?
And why, after all this time, isAntarctica still off limits?
Is it because of the weather or because of what's down there?
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Ancient ruins? Pre human civilizations, portals
to another world? And if something is still
watching, what happens when we finally dig too deep?
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The. The.
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The. None.